AI Plus Tax: What Kind of Chemistry Happens? Shanghai's Digital Star River Team Forges New Tax Tools in the AI Wave

Shanghai has a risk-control unit called the Digital Star River Team whose average age is just 27. Among its 19 members are national tax bureau leading talents and a gold medalist from a smart tax competition. These young staff applied AI to tax work and produced tangible results. Firms often do not know which preferential policies exist or how to use them. The team deployed an offline artificial intelligence application covering the entire policy journey from perception and matching through health checks, calculation and easy application to secure enjoyment, so a company can walk through every benefit it qualifies for. Once live, the tool is expected to serve more than two million taxpayer visits and deliver over 500 million yuan in benefits, including to the gaming sector. While coaching on benefits the team also watches risk, using an AI large model to process more than 100,000 public items from outside platforms such as East Money and Xueqiu to help build risk analysis reports along the R&D, operations, distribution and transaction chain. They also collect rankings and revenue data from authoritative industry sites to crack longstanding problems such as hidden income and hard-to-supervise cross-border transactions, examining 35 companies and recovering 150 million yuan in taxes.